Butter-cutting tool.



G. GLAUS.

BUTTER CUTTING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2,1910.

Patented Sept. 13,1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN GLAUS, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

BUTTER-CUTTING TOOL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN GLAUS, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State ofWisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Butter-Gutting Tools; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth withreference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims ofthis s ecification, its object being to improve the utter-cutting toolfor which Letters- Patent No. 956,072 were granted to me April 26, 1910,by providing said tool with means for effecting ready minute variationsof the adjustments of the wires thereof to compensate for shrinkage onthe part of angular molds of butter from predetermined proportions, inorder that all the print subdivisions of the molds may be of uniformdimensions, and the preferred means herein specified serve to stiffenthe aforesaid tool.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side elevation of my improvedbutter cutting tool partly broken away; Fig. 2, a plan view of afragment of the tool, and Fig. 3, an elevation of a fragment of saidtool partly in transverse section on the plane indicated by line 3-3 inFig. 1.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, indicates the bar, 8 each of thepair of channel-iron rails and 16, 24, 25, the wires of a butter-cuttingtool similar to the one specified in the Letters-Patent aforesaid, saidwires being respectively in connection with winding-bolts 18, 19, and20, and stretched taut between said rails.

Extending through the bar 7, adjacent to the rails 8, are screw-threadedvertical rods 31 and these rods are held in adjusted position by meansof clamp-nuts 32 thereon abutting opposite faces of said bar.

Each of the several wires 16, 24: and 25 extend between a pair ofwashers 33 on each of the rods 31, and each washer is opposed by aclamp-nut 34 run on the same rod.

Although taut between the rails 8, each of the wires 16, 24 and 25 canbe sprung inward or outward, and by manipulation of the nuts 34, minutevariations of adjustments of said wires to or from the bar may bereadily effected by the operator of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 2, 1910.

Patented Sept. 13, 1910.

Serial No. 570,067.

tool. Such adjustments are desirable when butter molds to be cut intoprints have shrunk from predetermined angular proportions, as therebycompensation for the shrinkage can be readily effected in order that allthe prints cut from a mold of the butter may have uniform dimensions andbe of equal weight.

It has been determined in practice that the rods 31 clamped inconnection with the bar 8 and wires 16, 24: and 25 of the tool serve tostiffen said tool and. thus prevent the same from twisting when employedto out very dense butter.

I claim:

1. A butter-cutting tool comprising a pair of rails, a bar in connectionat its ends with the rails approximately midway of their extremities,tant wires extending between said rails at normally predetermineddistances from opposite sides of the bar, rods held in connection withsaid bar to extend in opposite directions from the same adjacent to therails, and wire-clamping devices adjustable on the rods.

2. A butter-cutting tool comprising a pair of rails, a bar in connectionat its ends with the rails approximately midway of their extremities,taut wires extending between said rails at normally predetermineddistances from opposite sides of the bar, rods held in connection withsaid bar to extend in opposite direct-ions from the same adjacent to therails, washers paired on the rods to oppose the wires in oppositedirections, and clamp-nuts in engagement with said rods against thewashers.

3. A butter-cutting tool comprising a pair of rails, a bar in connectionat its ends with the rails approximately midway of their extremities,taut wires extending between said rails at normally predetermineddistances from opposite sides of the bar, screw-threaded rods extendingthrough the bar adjacent to the aforesaid rails, clamp-nuts on the rodsagainst opposite faces of said bar, and wire clamping devices adjustableon the rods.

4. A butter-cutting tool comprising a pair of rails, a bar in connectionat its ends with the rails approximately midway of their extremities,taut wires extending between said rails at normally predetermineddistances from opposite sides of the bar, screw-threaded rods extendingthrough the bar adjacent to the aforesaid rails, clamp-nuts on the rodsagainst opposite faces of said bar, washers the county of Milwaukee andState of Wispaired on said rods to oppose the wires in consin, in thepresence of two witnesses.

opposite directions, and clamp-nuts in engagement with the aforesaidrods against the washers.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand atMilwaukee, in

CHRISTIAN GrLAUS.

Witnesses:

ALMA MEHL, OSCAR C. MEI-IL.

